The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Malvern Hills local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1959. Parsonage house. 1 related planning application.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- half-tallow-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Malvern Hills
- Constituency
- West Worcestershire MP: Dame Harriett Baldwin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1959
- Type
- Parsonage house
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Great Witley, WR6 6JP
- OS grid reference
- SO 758 661
- Coordinates
- 52.29288, -2.35608
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is an early 19th-century parsonage house located in Great Witley. It is constructed of red brick with sandstone dressings and features a slate roof. The building is two rooms deep with a central hallway and stairwell, a double range roof, and end stacks on the front range, along with one end stack and one left stack on the rear range. It stands three storeys high and has a moulded stone cornice with a bedmould that suggests a frieze.
The façade includes a central bay with a slight forward projection and five windows, which are glazing bar sashes set in cambered heads on the second floor. The first floor features a central tripartite window, where the side lights are blind, flanked by two windows, all adorned with stone architraves and cornices. The outer projecting canted bays contain three 20th-century windows and have quoins, a listel cornice, and a blocking course. The central entrance is highlighted by a Doric portico in antis, leading to a semi-circular headed doorway with a keyed architrave, a plain fanlight, and a partly glazed door.
At the rear, there is a central semi-circular headed sash window at mezzanine level. Inside, the property boasts a fine 19th-century staircase and imported panelling in the room to the right of the entrance. Additionally, there is a lower two-storey former service wing that projects to the right at the rear.
Local climate
The Old Rectory receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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